Webster 1828 · headword: perverted
View source image ↗Turned from right to wrong; distorted; corrupted; misinterpreted; misemployed.
KJV WORD
perverted
COMBINED MEANING
Meaning of perverted
Turned from right to wrong; distorted; corrupted; misinterpreted; misemployed.
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Webster 1828
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KJV CONCORDANCE
Every occurrence of “perverted”
And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
H5186 · נָטָה (natah)
To stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application (as follows). KJV renderings: + afternoon, apply, bow (down, - ing), carry aside, decline, deliver, extend, go down, be gone, incline, intend, lay, let down, offer, outstretched, overthrown, pervert, pitch, prolong, put away, shew, spread (out), stretch (forth, out), take (aside), turn (aside, away), wrest, cause to yield.
Hebrew · Verb · Strong 1890He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
H5753 · עָוָה (`avah)
To crook, literally or figuratively (as follows). KJV renderings: do amiss, bow down, make crooked, commit iniquity, pervert, (do) perverse(-ly), trouble, × turn, do wickedly, do wrong.
Hebrew · Verb · Strong 1890¶ For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.
H7725 · שׁוּב (shuwb)
To turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again. KJV renderings: ((break, build, circumcise, dig, do anything, do evil, feed, lay down, lie down, lodge, make, rejoice, send, take, weep)) × again, (cause to) answer (+ again), × in any case (wise), × at all, averse, bring (again, back, home again), call (to mind), carry again (back), cease, × certainly, come again (back), × consider, + continually, convert, deliver (again), + deny, draw back, fetch home again, × fro, get (oneself) (back) again, × give (again), go again (back, home), (go) out, hinder, let, (see) more, × needs, be past, × pay, pervert, pull in again, put (again, up again), recall, recompense, recover, refresh, relieve, render (again), requite, rescue, restore, retrieve, (cause to, make to) return, reverse, reward, + say nay, send back, set again, slide back, still, × surely, take back (off), (cause to, make to) turn (again, self again, away, back, back again, backward, from, off), withdraw.
Hebrew · Verb · Strong 1890A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the Lord their God.
H5753 · עָוָה (`avah)
To crook, literally or figuratively (as follows). KJV renderings: do amiss, bow down, make crooked, commit iniquity, pervert, (do) perverse(-ly), trouble, × turn, do wickedly, do wrong.
Hebrew · Verb · Strong 1890And the burden of the Lord shall ye mention no more: for every man’s word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the Lord of hosts our God.
H2015 · הָפַךְ (haphak)
To turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert. KJV renderings: X become, change, come, be converted, give, make (a bed), overthrow (-turn), perverse, retire, tumble, turn (again, aside, back, to the contrary, every way).
Hebrew · Verb · Strong 1890